Experts specialising in the European Union and Europe

Political situation in Europe, European Parliament and decision-making in the EU, foreign policy

 

• Italian politics and elections of the European Parliament in Italy  

  

• History of European integration, long-term development of the EU, separation of powers between EU institutions, defence dimension of the EU, common EU foreign and security policy, Finland’s EU policy, EU enlargement, EU trade policy 

 

• European social integration, EU social policy, social Europe, welfare state, social policy values 

  

• Finland’s integration into the European Union, decision-making in the EU and power relations between EU institutions 

  

• European integration, EU operators and institutions, European Parliament and political groups, equality policy, opposition to equality, democracy

 

• EU treaties and institutions, decision-making in the EU, EMU, European administrative law 

  

• EU, European policy, national policy of EU member states, European ideas and narratives, European history, economic policy in the EU, European ideologies  

  

• Political development and EU policy in eastern Central Europe (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) and Romania 

  

• EU–UK relations (especially membership of the Parliamentary Partnership Assembly), political group composition and institutional leadership, parliamentary diplomacy, gender 

  

• European Parliament, EU lobbying, power of expert knowledge, interest groups, think tanks, European banking and debt crisis, relations between EU institutions, democracy, openness, the decision-making process in the EU 

  

• Democratic deficit in the EU, European public sphere, EU economic policy and steering concerning economic policy by member states 

   

• Political discourses and inter-party dynamics, populism, Euroscepticism, Europhilia and critical Europeans, elections of the European Parliament across Europe 

  

• European integration, EU economic policy, ECB monetary policy, European law, political economy of the EU   

  

• Swedish politics and elections of the European Parliament in Sweden 
• Interviews in Swedish or English 

  

• Nordic countries, Nordic politics, Nordic cooperation 

  

• EU foreign policy, European values, asylum policy and Europeanisation, Finland’s EU and UN policy 

  

• Campaigning in the elections for the European Parliament, political ideologies, national politics of EU member states 

  

• Role of digital giants in EU politics 

European migration, religions, history and education

  

• Education, equality and youth policy in the EU 

  

• The Vatican and the EU, religions and secularisation in Europe, churches in Ukraine, anti-Semitism 

  

• Idea and identities of Europe, cities, political movements, national thinking, popular movements, cultural heritage, politics of history 

 

• Germany, Franco–German reconciliation and European integration after 1945, Christian contributions to European integration and unification, EU solidarity with Ukraine, European history and narratives  

  

• Freedom of religion and conscience, history and theory of human rights 

  

• Migration, borders and deportations, minority politics, nationalism, history of historiography 

  

• Politics of history, identity, law and legal history  

 

• Populism, extremism, conspiracy theories, totalitarianism, tolerance, secularisation

EU legislation and regulation, human rights

 

• Political advertising and disinformation in European Parliament elections, regulation of digital platforms in the EU, EU law 

  

• Fundamental and human rights, EU law  

  

• European law 

  

• European Court of Human Rights, fundamental and human rights 

  

• Refugee law, EU asylum policy, human rights, European law

EU environmental and agricultural policy

 

• EU emissions trading plan, environmental taxation, economic aspects of biodiversity 

 

• Biodiversity of the agricultural environment   

 

• Climate issues, such as emissions trading, energy policy and land use 

 

• Global food security, agricultural development in developing countries, economic impact of sustainable intensification of agriculture, poverty reduction 

 

• Preconditions and obstacles to implementing the sustainability transition, climate and environmental policy of nationalist right-wing parties, history of climate and environmental policy, economic policy and implementation of climate policy